Collapsable drop pot. Soap as bait. We once caught about 300 out of a mate's dam using this technique from a tinny in about an hour. The soap has fat in it and thats what they go for.You can use meat if you want to. Then we used them to catch Murray Cod, Yellow Belly and carp???, on the Darling up near Bourke. We then watched the snakes and goannas fight over the carp we left on the bank...that was interesting!!!!

If you want to eat them, flush them out by putting them in fresh water for about a day then cook them in salted water. Gets rid of the muddy taste.

We just boil em in salted water straight out the dam (the yabbies not the water )
Missus like's em with vinegar
My son and I like em neat or with thousand island dressing.
Using them for bait?...........................stuff that! Theyre too good

You guy's obviously still have a river.Does the lower reaches of the Darling have water in it now?In S.A the crabs were pre-cooked on the beach the other day.I've been told of yabbies as big as a long-neck coming from the Murray.Don't think you'd catch 'em that size anymore.Good with a salad+sea- food dressing.

Cherabin hmmm good. Cant beat garlic, chillie and butter on the pan in the tinny with a cold beer on a hot NT day. Thats when we arnt using them to catch barra.

Best baits in opera house trap: Soap, potato or cat food.

Useless infor for ya: Dont know about other species but cherabin are vegitarian. Generally they are eating whatever bait you put in pot to get it out of their area. ie your dirty bait in poluting their home.

Went to the shops the other day and they were going for $28 kilo........for yabbies....... I am thinking of buying some land, getting a mate with a loader to dig some dams, throw in my job and farm the buggers, haha.